Applevariety
Clearheart
A cooking and dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, flat in shape; tart and firm. Picked in late September.
Origin · Ireland
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed carmineBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 69 mmFruit height 57 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed on bodyRusset pattern russet dots
Origin & family
Where Clearheart began
Recorded origin
Ireland
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- ribbed on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 69 mm
- over colour
- flushed carmine
- russet type
- russet dots
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 57 mm
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.